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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.
But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.
Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.
Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.
I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.
Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.
I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.
How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.
I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.
I live between two things-I live between art and pop all the time.
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.
Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.
Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.
There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.
Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.
A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.